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Raymond, Maurice F (Morris Raymond Saunders). An Important Scrapbook of Raymond’s Early Escape Act Clippings and Ephemera. Principally 1906—08. Period quarter leather scrapbook, 4to, spine perished, approximately 100 leaves, heavily focused on Raymond’s escape act with handcuffs, straitjackets, boxes, and other apparatus, and including challenge handbills, heralds, playbills, programs, letterhead, tickets, several pieces of official correspondence from Raymond’s performances before leaders and politicians of British Guiana and Suriname, and clippings from Raymond’s early tours gathered from newspapers in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, New York, Maryland and other New England states, plus Cuba, Panama, Trinidad, Barbados, Colombia, and elsewhere. Custom drop-spine cloth box. An important archive containing some of the earliest and perhaps only extant material from this period of Raymond’s career.